= Сообщение: 3124 из 12518 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Robert Bashe 2:2448/44 02 Dec 15 09:05:54 Кому : Ward Dossche 02 Dec 15 09:05:54 Тема : Service announcement FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+565ea7a4 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+a4042068 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== ============================================================================== Ward Dossche wrote to Robert Bashe on Tuesday December 01 2015 at 11:48:
RB>> It's fashionable to damn "Mein Kampf" nowadays, but if more people RB>> had read it before 1933, Hitler's chances of becoming RB>> Reichschancellor might have been a good deal smaller than they were.
WD> We do not know that because ...
RB>> Pre-1933 Germans were desperate, both economically and in terms of RB>> self-estimation. But they were no dumber than the average present EU RB>> citizen.
WD> ... as you point-out yourself, the Germans were pretty-desperate after WD> the Treaty of Versailles forced them into submission.
Versailles indeed. But the American demand to call in all loans (in gold) to postwar Germany after the Great Depression started in the USA didn't help. Nor did the French occupation of the Saar.
In my opinion, you simplify too much.
WD> Interesting detail, in 1942 US authorities seized the American WD> copyright under the "Trading With The Enemy Act" and cashed-in on the WD> proceeds of more than 15.000 copies a year sold Stateside until 1979 WD> when the copyright was sold (and more money made from it).
Peanuts, when you think of the seizure of the Trade Name "Aspirin" under the same Act. Bayer bought the trademark back in the last few years, but until then it was a generic.
